Expand TV serviceswithout huge network costs

Video will account for up to 90% of the total Internet traffic by 2018. The surging video traffic combined with increasing preferences of consuming TV over mobile devices, connected TVs, UHD screens, means significant needs for telco operators to upgrade network capacity.

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Why optimize

your delivery network for TV

Reaching deeper into your network will significantly reduce delays and buffering, giving you more control over your viewing experience, with your own operator CDN.

You can begin by putting delivery servers at your most congested points in the network. Your benefits include:

Increased revenue from multiscreen services – expand your TV services to increase number of subscribers or devices per household

True live viewing experience – rolling buffers in the delivery servers enable trick play capability with subsecond latency for time-shift TV services such as catch-up, start-over, pause-live and cloud DVR

One platform for all services – you can add new services, repackage your assets, monetize archives, personalize stream etc. that works for both IPTV and multiscreen on the same server

Monetize your operator CDN – with multitenancy, you can generate revenue by providing wholesale CDN services to content providers, aggregators, broadcasters and other providers in the ecosystem such as the ISPs

Why deploy

distributed delivery architecture

As traffic grows, you can significantly reduce backhaul traffic by building a caching hierarchy.

This distributed delivery architecture is based on the principle that 80% of your viewers watch only 20% of your content. By caching the most popular content and channels at the edge, you are already serving 80% of your viewers. Essentially, you reduce upstream network traffic by the same volume. Edge TV Repackaging will reduce backhaul bandwidth even more.

What it does

Libraries and recording assets only need to be ingested once before the content is automatically distributed to the edge delivery servers

Popularity based caching enables the most popular content being automatically propagated close to the viewers

Caching hierarchy can be scaled in pace with demand by adding capacity via central management control or deploying delivery servers without the need to ‘rip and replace’ anything

Competitive wholesale CDN capabilities with high viewing quality and performance

Monitoring and measurement of viewer behavior and engagement, quality of sessions delivered, etc.

Products

Learn how Edgeware products can help you deliver TV to any screen, any place and at anytime – with an amazing viewing experience.